A source-grounded work assistant that prepares the permit journey, connects it to field evidence, and turns approved learning into safer future work.
IRVINE, CA – July 27, 2026 – EON AI Ventures today announced Permit IQ, a Work Intelligence product for oil-and-gas control of work. Permit IQ helps workers learn the company’s permit system, prepare a source-grounded job package, and understand exactly which qualified people must inspect and approve the work. The signed permit and the operator’s controlled documents remain the sole authority. The architecture, workflow, and implementation strategy are detailed in the accompanying white paper, “Permit IQ for Oil & Gas.”
The problem: generic paperwork for specific danger
A pump-seal replacement may take less time than the preparation around it. Workers must determine the right hazard analysis, permit types, isolation requirements, gas tests, joint inspections, signatures, custody rules, and close-out steps. The rules are essential, but the forms are generic. They do not know that this pump has trapped pressure, a difficult isolation point, or a history of seal failure. Training a changing workforce and contractor base is therefore slow, repetitive, and dependent on experienced people who may not always be available.
The product: learn, prepare, verify, capture, improve
| Stage | Responsible capability | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Learn | Permit IQ Trainer + Explainer | Workers practice the company’s exact permit process, terminology, roles, and decisions in their language. |
| Prepare | Permit IQ Navigator + Co-pilot | A worker describes the job; Permit IQ identifies the applicable path and prepares a draft from approved procedures, equipment intelligence, and cited source clauses. |
| Verify & capture | Field IQ | Approved intent is delivered to the equipment. Qualified people perform the physical checks; Field IQ records photos, readings, timestamps, and exceptions. |
| Improve | Work Intelligence Distillery | Validated work episodes are reviewed by humans. Only approved learning returns to procedures, training, equipment intelligence, or rulebook versions. |
Click on the image below to access the Permit IQ – the permit-to-work intelligence layer for oil & gas presentation.
What makes Permit IQ different
- Source or silence: Permit IQ never invents a safety requirement, threshold, or procedure. A rule is shown verbatim with its governing source, or the system says it cannot answer.
- Equipment-aware preparation: the draft reflects the real asset’s anatomy, stored energy, isolation points, procedure, and approved incident knowledge.
- Human authority by design: certified people edit, inspect, approve, sign, and close the work. Permit IQ cannot issue or override a permit and cannot independently verify zero energy.
- A complete learning loop: Field IQ captures what physically occurred, while the Distillery separates evidence from uncertainty and governs any proposed improvement.
- Worker protection: identifiable capture is minimized; the product does not rank individuals or become a performance-surveillance system.
Oil and gas first
The first release focuses on oil and gas, beginning with a complete pump-seal replacement story. The same physical job can be rendered through different operator rulebooks without changing the universal engine. This proves that the reusable asset is not a generic form—it is the connection among rulebook, equipment, field execution, and governed learning.
Design-partner program
EON is inviting a limited number of oil-and-gas operators to shape a 90-day design-partner deployment. Programs may begin with permit training and preparation, then extend into strict shadow-mode field verification on approved hardware. Success measures include time to competency, preparation time, source-grounding accuracy, permit-path correctness, field evidence completeness, and frontline adoption. Customer operational intelligence remains customer-resident under EON’s Knowledge Firewall.
“The industry does not need an AI that improvises safety. It needs an assistant that knows the company’s approved rules, understands the equipment, helps people prepare, and then connects the signed intent to evidence from the field. Permit IQ prepares. Field IQ verifies and captures. The Distillery improves—under human control,” said Dan Lejerskar, Founder of EON AI Ventures.
Read more in the Permit IQ for Oil & Gas white paper.
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About EON AI Ventures
EON AI Ventures is the company behind Work Intelligence — the captured, verified, and compounding knowledge of how expert work is actually done. Its Intelligence Flywheel platform (Genesis, Field IQ, Assess IQ) enables industrial enterprises to encode expert procedures into AI-guided simulations, deliver them to any worker on any device, and verify competency in the field. EON AI Ventures builds on a 25-year foundation of immersive learning technology deployed across more than 80 countries. For more information, visit www.eonaiventures.com